Dear all,
On the occasion of the upcoming opening of the Tang Chang Private Museum on 1–2 May 2026, we are pleased to share a selection of scholarly writings on Tang Chang (also known as Chang Sae-tang) as part of the lead-up to the event.
These materials have been carefully curated as a preliminary point of engagement, offering context, perspectives, and lines of inquiry that may enrich both the opening and the symposium discussions. Where available, we have included links to sources that can be freely accessed online.
We hope this selection will serve as a useful introduction and a thoughtful starting point in the days leading up to our gathering.
2025
- Nawapooh Sae-tang, and Phumraphee Sae-tang (2025). “From Outside to International: A Case Study on the Management of Tang Chang’s Collection.” The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, May, 1–16.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10632921.2025.2507940 - Nawapooh Sae-tang and Simon Soon (2025). “Beyond Sino-Thai Identity: A Study of Tang Chang’s Life and Art.” Manusya 28, 1–29.
https://doi.org/10.1163/26659077-20252805 - Nawapooh Sae-tang, Simon Soon, and Wahyuni Masyidah Md Isa (2025). “Beyond Tang Chang’s Self-Portraits.” Wacana Seni 24.
https://doi.org/10.21315/ws2025.24.1 - Nawapooh Sae-tang, Wahyuni Masyidah Md Isa, and Simon Soon (2025). “The Outsider Artist in Thai Modern Art: A Study of Tang Chang (1934–1990).” TiraiPanggung 21.
https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/tiraipanggung/article/view/61833
2023
- Ker, Yin (2023). “Curatorial essay | An Essay on Non-Forms: Tang Chang (1934–1990), a Modern Painter of Literati Aspirations from Bangkok.” In Tang Chang (1934–1990): Non-Forms. Paris: Centre Pompidou.
https://www.academia.edu/109780991
2022
- Tsui, Enid H.Y. (2022). “Tang Chang — A Reluctant ‘Outsider’ of Thai Modern Art.” World Art 12 (1): 1–23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2021.1976817
2020
- Cacchione, Orianna (2020). “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image.” In Tang Chang: The Painting That Is Painted with Poetry Is Profoundly Beautiful. Smart Museum of Art.
https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/smartmuseum/i/files/Tang_Chang_booklet.pdf - Praepipatmongkol, Chanon (2020). “Postwar Abstraction and Practices of Knowledge: Fernando Zobel and Chang Saetang.” PhD diss., University of Michigan.
- Tsui, Enid H.Y. (2020). “Beyond the Mirror: Tang Chang’s Self Portraits as Anti-Canonical Resistance.” MA diss., The University of Hong Kong.
2017
- Teh, David (2017). “The Preter-National: The Southeast Asian Contemporary and What Haunts It.” ARTMargins 6 (1): 33–63.
https://direct.mit.edu/artm/article-abstract/6/1/33/18021 - Teh, David (2017). MISFITS: Pages from a Loose-Leaf Modernity. Berlin: HKW.
https://www.academia.edu/34037214
1995
- Shioda, Junichi (1995). “Bangkok and Chiang Mai: Ways of Modernity.” In Asian Modernism: Diverse Development in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. The Japan Foundation Asia Center.
https://www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/asia_exhibition_history/17_95_modernism.html#catalog_pdf
We look forward to welcoming you to the opening and to the conversations ahead.
Warm regards,
The Tang Chang Private Museum